On the afternoon of the tenth day, Qin Tiexin stood in the weight-bearing area with a 15,000-jin bluestone square weight on his head.
The weight was so heavy that the bones of his neck creaked slightly. He did ten squats and walked twenty steps. His forehead was sweating and his legs felt heavy, but there was only a slight sense of pressure on his skull, and there was no pain like spreading cracks.
He put down the weight and frowned.
Something is wrong.
According to the description of Body Refining Method Formula, there are three stages when tempering the skull: first, micro-cracks are generated, then the bones are silvery when the cracks heal, and finally, the bones are completely healed and the silver light is restrained. He is now in the second stage - the sternum, spine, and skull are all glowing with a light silvery white color, but they have never been able to completely transform into that condensed silver color.
It's like being separated by a layer of veil, visible but intangible.
At this time, several disciples who were practicing together looked over.
"Junior brother Qin, you..." The square-faced man came over and stretched out his hand to touch the crack of the blue stone square weight, "A fifteen thousand kilogram weight is no longer effective?"
Qin Tiexin nodded.
The square-faced man looked at the top of Qin Tiexin's head again. There wasn't even a mark there. He smacked his lips. "You shouldn't... have that kind of physique, right?"
"What kind?"
"The kind who are born with hard bones." The square-faced man said, "I heard Professor Shi mention it before, some people are born with denser bones than ordinary people and greater strength. Such people are faster in the early stage of physical training, but when it comes to tempering their own bones, because the foundation is too good, it is difficult to break through - there is not enough pressure from the outside world to press your bones."
Qin Tiexin thought of his appetite since childhood and his extraordinary strength. "What should I do?"
"Look for Shi to teach you." The square-faced man said, "He is at the tenth level of Body Tempering, half a step into Qi and Blood level, and he knows more than us."
Shi Yong, an instructor at the Body Refining Institute, is training people.
Three disciples who were new to physical training were lying on the ground doing push-ups, each with a 200-pound stone slab on their backs. Shi Yong stood beside him, holding a cane in his hand, and he would hit anyone who moved slowly.
"You haven't eaten? Your waist is slumped! Get up!"
The cane was slapped on the back with a snap.
Qin Tiexin stood at the entrance of the courtyard, waiting for Shi Yong to finish training.
Shi Yong glanced back at him and continued to stare at the three disciples. After they finished a hundred, he waved his hand. "Go away and come back tomorrow."
The three disciples, as if they had received amnesty, got up and ran away.
Shi Yong threw the cane into the corner and walked over. He looked like he was in his forties, but his muscles were taut and stronger than those of a twenty-year-old. There were scars all over his body, the deepest one running diagonally from his left shoulder to his right abdomen, as if he had been scratched by some wild beast.
"What's the matter?" Shi Yong asked.
Qin Tiexin explained the matter: medicinal bath, traction, malleus, weight-bearing. When he said that the skull no longer cracked, Shi Yong interrupted him.
"Hands out."
Qin Tiexin extends his hand.
Shi Yong pinched his wrist with two fingers, first lightly, and then gradually increasing force. Qin Tiexin felt that the bones were being squeezed, but it was not to the extent of pain.
Shi Yong glanced at him, and the strength in his hands suddenly increased.
50% strength, 70% strength, 100% strength - Qin Tiexin The skin on the wrist turned white, and the bones made a slight friction sound, but there was still no deformation.
Shi Yong let go of his hand and stared at Qin Tiexin for a while, then suddenly pointed at his chest.
This finger was very fast, with the sound of breaking wind.
Qin Tiexin didn't hide, he took it hard.
The fingertips poked into the center of the sternum, making a muffled sound. Qin Tiexin took half a step back, leaving a red spot on his chest, but the skin was not broken and the bones were fine.
"What a good boy." Shi Yong retracted his hand with complicated eyes, "He is really a natural for training."
He thought for a while and seemed to be hesitating. After a while, he turned around and walked towards the back of the yard. "Follow me."
Qin Tiexin Follow up.
There is a path behind the yard that leads to the mountain wall. Shi Yong pushed open a hidden wooden door, and inside was a downward tunnel. The air suddenly became cooler and smelled of earth.
"This is the sect's abandoned Heixuan mineral vein." Shi Yong said, his voice echoing in the tunnel, "It used to produce black Mysterious Iron, but later it was hollowed out and turned into a place for body refining."
The tunnel was very dark, so Shi Yong took a torch from the wall and lit it. The fire danced and illuminated the stone walls on both sides. Traces of mining remained on the walls, and sporadic black Mysterious Iron remnants could occasionally be seen, shining dimly under the firelight.
The further you go down, the thinner the air becomes. However, the temperature rises abnormally, and there is a sense of restlessness in the air.
After walking for about a stick of incense, the front suddenly became clear.
It is a huge mine cavity, ten feet square and five feet high at the top. There is a complex set of mechanisms in the center: four thick iron pillars support the platform at the top, on which hangs a huge black metal block in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with a rough and uneven surface, and the unique dark patterns of Mysterious Iron can be vaguely seen.
Qin Tiexin estimated that the piece of Mysterious Iron weighed at least thirty thousand kilograms.
Below the mechanism is a stone platform with dense patterns carved on it that extend to the surrounding walls.
"This place has been modified to provide heavy pressure for the tenth level of quenching body impact Qi and Blood." Shi Yong pointed to the piece of Mysterious Iron, "When the mechanism is activated, Mysterious Iron will slowly press down. With the Spiritual Qi flushing of the earth veins, the final tempering can be completed under extreme pressure. Depending on your situation, it is estimated that only this place can meet the requirements."
He walked to the stone platform and kicked the table. "Take off your shirt and stand on it."
Qin Tiexin took off his shirt and walked onto the stone platform.
Shi Yong pointed to the top of his head. "When Mysterious Iron falls, use your head to hold it. Remember, it is not to carry it hard, but to guide the Spiritual Qi to impact the bones under pressure. You are born with hard bones, and the normal pressure is not enough, so you can only use this."
"But there is a risk. This Mysterious Iron is very heavy and puts a lot of pressure on your bones, especially if you are only at the sixth level of body tempering." Shi Yong said simply, "If you can't carry it, your skull will be shattered and you will die on the spot. If you can carry it, the guidance fails, and the Spiritual Qi will overwhelm the meridians and paralyze you. Are you afraid?"
Qin Tiexin shook his head.
Shi Yong stared at him for two seconds and nodded. "Okay, let's start."
He walked to the wall and pulled an iron rod.
The machine made a sound and the gears rotated. The hanging boulder Mysterious Iron began to slowly descend.
It was very slow at first, inch by inch. Qin Tiexin looked up and adjusted his breathing. When Mysterious Iron dropped to three feet above his head, he bent his knees, lowered his waist, put his hands on his knees, and tightened his spine like a bowstring.
Two feet.
One foot.
The moment Mysterious Iron touched the top of his head, the weight suddenly came down.
Qin Tiexin's body sank, and his neck bones groaned under the load, as if they were about to break at any time. But he exerted force on his back and held on.
Mysterious Iron continues to decline.
The weight is increasing. From 10,000 kilograms, to 15,000 kilograms, to 18,000 kilograms... Qin Tiexin gritted his teeth, and blood began to ooze from his seven orifices. The edges of his vision became black, and there was a buzzing in his ears.
But it's not enough.
He felt that his skull began to tremble under the pressure, but the "veil" was still there. The silver-white bones were resisting, refusing to undergo further transformation.
"Shi Jiaoxi!" he growled.
Shi Yong pulled the second iron rod.
The patterns on the walls of the mine cavity suddenly lit up.
The violent Spiritual Qi surged out from the stone wall, like a long-confined raging wave, instantly filling the entire space. Spiritual Qi was chaotic, with five elements, sharp metal energy, heavy earth energy, hot and dry water energy, cold water energy, and vital wood energy - all mixed together, turning into a brute torrent, rushing towards Qin Tiexin on the stone platform.
"Boom!"
Spiritual Qi filling body.
Qin Tiexin's whole body was shaken violently. It was like countless blunt knives churning in the body, and the meridians were stretched to the point of almost bursting. But more Spiritual Qi rushed towards the skull and spine - the places with the greatest pressure and the densest bones.
pain.
Indescribable pain.
It was a hundred times more painful than the needles of medicinal baths, and a thousand times more painful than the stretching of traction. The skull felt like it was being beaten on an anvil, with every hammer hitting the most vulnerable gap. The spine felt like being stabbed from beginning to end by a red-hot iron rod, and every vertebra was wailing.
Consciousness begins to blur.
Qin Tiexin bit the tip of his tongue, and the smell of blood filled his mouth. He forced himself to wake up and exercise Method Formula.
Method Formula is very basic, it just guides Spiritual Qi to circulate in the meridians. But in this violent Spiritual Qi environment, basic Method Formula is like a candle in the strong wind, which can be extinguished at any time.
He could only grasp the faint sense of guidance and try his best to divert the Spiritual Qi rushing toward the skull, with some of it hitting the surface of the bone and some of it seeping inside.
Looking inside, the pale silver skull began to change under the wash of Spiritual Qi.
The silver light is deepening.
From light silver to light silver, but it is not enough. It is still a little short of the kind of condensed and restrained silver.
Mysterious Iron The boulder is still falling slowly.
The weight has reached 20,000 kilograms.
Qin Tiexin's legs began to tremble, and his knees made a "clucking" sound. Spider-web-like cracks appeared on the surface of the stone platform, spreading from his feet to all sides.
The bleeding from the seven orifices became even more severe. The blood flowed down the cheeks and dripped on the stone platform, where it was quickly absorbed by the formation patterns.
Shi Yong stood by the wall with his hand on the third iron rod. It was the emergency brake lever. Pulling it would stop the mechanism. But he didn't pull it.
He stared at the young man on the stone platform, with surprise, appreciation, and a hint of unnoticeable worry in his eyes.
Time becomes sticky in pain.
Every breath is like a year.
Qin Tiexin felt that his consciousness was slipping away. All that was left in his ears was the sound of blood rushing and the slight cracking sound of bones under pressure - it wasn't really cracking, it was the "gauze" being torn apart.
Not even close.
Just a little bit.
He growled lowly and exerted force on his back.
Instead of resisting the pressure, follow the direction of the pressure and concentrate all your strength on the top of your head. At the same time, the body training Method Formula is running to the limit, guiding all the violent Spiritual Qi to slam into the deepest part of the skull.
"Click--"
It's not a cracking sound, it's a breaking sound.
Like an eggshell breaking, new life is born.
The skull is filled with silver light.
That layer of silver light no longer floats on the surface, but shines out from the inside out, condensed and thick, like mercury under the moonlight. The silver light lights up along the spine, cervical vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae... every vertebrae is lit up.
Then spread.
The sternum, ribs, shoulder blades, clavicle... all the big bones in the body glowed with real silver light at the same time.
The pressure suddenly eased.
It's not that Mysterious Iron has become lighter, it's that the strength of the bones has undergone a qualitative change. Pressing down the weight of 20,000 kilograms is like pressing on a piece of A Thousand Hammerings and a Hundred Refinements, which can no longer cause any damage.
Qin Tiexin Open your eyes.
The silver light in his eyes flashed away.
He roared, exerted force on his back, and the Mysterious Iron boulder above his head was lifted up by a foot!
The machine made a harsh grinding sound, and the gears rotated wildly, trying to maintain downforce. But Qin Tiexin exerted force again.
"Get up!"
The boulder rose another two feet.
Shi Yong quickly pulled the iron rod. The mechanism stopped and Mysterious Iron slowly returned to suspension.
Qin Tiexin stood on the stone platform and slowly straightened up.
The bones all over his body made a fine "crackling" sound, as if they were being rearranged. He looked down at his hands - under the skin, the silver light of the bones was vaguely visible, but he quickly restrained himself and returned to normal.
He made a fist.
Power. An unprecedented sense of power surged from the depths of his bones, flowing through every muscle and tendon. He felt like he could break rocks with one punch and crack the earth with one foot.
He raised his foot and stepped on it lightly.
"Click--"
There was a crack in the stone platform under my feet, half a foot deep and as wide as an arm.
This is not a full force, just a casual step.
Shi Yong came over, looked at the crack, and then at Qin Tiexin.
"Six levels of body quenching are completed." He said, "The big bones of the whole body are connected into one body, and the strength exceeds ten thousand jins. Next is the water grinding process - tempering those small bones. Only when they are all quenched can it be completed."
Qin Tiexin nodded.
He felt the power rushing through his body and the solidity of his bones. Although there was still some way to go before Dacheng, the most difficult hurdle had been passed.
"Thank you, Professor Shi." he said.
Shi Yong waved his hand. "You carried it yourself. Go out, take a shower, and have a good rest. Starting tomorrow, you can practice your strength skills - no matter how powerful your strength is, it will be in vain if you don't use it well."
Qin Tiexin put on clothes and walked out of the mine cavity.
The tunnel was still so dark, but in his eyes, everything was much clearer. He could even see every texture and every particle of dust on the stone wall.
When we returned to the ground, the sun was setting.
The clouds in the sky are like fire, reflecting the entire Liuyun Sect in a golden red.
Qin Tiexin stood on the mountain road and looked back at the entrance of the mine.
There are still ten days until the competition.