Hide in the world of gods and demons

Chapter 156 (One Hundred and Fifty-Five): Unable to Hold Back
Chen Li sat in a bathtub filled with medicinal herbs, his eyes slightly closed, his whole body burning hot and red, with wisps of blue smoke rising from the top of his head.

In his inner vision.

As the spiritual energy continuously tempered the bones according to the Immortal Skin and Jade Bone Technique, countless intricate patterns appeared on the crystalline bones, sometimes visible, sometimes hidden, flashing intermittently, as if they were breathing.

It has been a year and a half since I started practicing the Immortal Skin Jade Bone Technique, and I have spent more than ten high-grade spirit stones on it.

Meanwhile, the Immortal Muscle Jade Bone Technique has been slowly optimized to the expert level.

Compared to the original Immortal Muscle Jade Bone Technique, the current Immortal Muscle Jade Bone Technique has become more complex in its operation. The dense patterns on the bones only appear after the technique has been advanced to the expert level.

The result was... a significant increase in the consumption of spiritual energy.

The bones, which were already almost fully tempered, now need to be tempered all over again.

An hour later, feeling his spiritual energy gradually depleting and beginning to wane, Chen Li slowly stopped circulating his energy. He picked up a Body Tempering Pill from beside the bathtub, swallowed one to nourish his body, and with a gentle push, his body gracefully leaped out of the bathtub.

"This body is getting heavier and heavier."

This was not his imagination.

Not only did he notice it, for example, when flying, the speed was much slower, and Zhou Hong and Shu Niang also complained about it several times.

"It's probably because the bone density is increasing. So it's a trade-off!"

He threw a punch out of thin air.

There was a "boom".

It produced a sonic boom.

A strong wind was howling inside the room.

The windows around us rattled loudly.

In the past, such a punch would have caused him to feel a tearing pain in all his muscles, but now he feels nothing at all.

"Master..." came the maid's voice from outside the door.

"It's nothing!" Chen Li said casually, cast a cleansing spell on himself, put on his robe, tidied his appearance, and went out. After instructing the maid to tidy up the room, he came to a rock in the courtyard to test the strength of his bones again.

He first cast a hemostatic spell on himself.

He used three-tenths of his strength to punch the rock.

"Oh!"

The mountain rocks trembled slightly, and fragments of rock flew everywhere.

Chen Li punched directly into the rock.

"It's a little scratched!" He pulled his hand away and looked at the back of his hand.

This is normal. The Immortal Muscle and Jade Bone Technique is divided into three relatively independent parts: Immortal Muscle, Visceral Organs, and Jade Bone. He is still in the bone tempering stage, and his skin, flesh, and internal organs have not yet begun to be tempered.

Then, he used five-tenths of his strength to throw another punch.

The back of his hand was immediately covered in blood, but the bones remained intact.

"Not bad, much better than the last test."

"continue……"

Chen Li clenched his bleeding fist, took a deep breath, slowly took a step back, circulated his spiritual energy, and his blood and qi surged. Then, his figure moved like a phantom and took a step forward, throwing a punch with all his might.

"boom!"

In an instant.

It was like a thunderclap.

Shocking.

The rock was shattered into pieces by a single punch, creating a crater half a meter in size.

"Hiss! It actually held up!" Chen Li withdrew his hand, feeling both surprised and delighted.

As for the muscle tears, the bloody mess on the back of his hand, and the multiple fractures in his fist and arm, they were just minor injuries... Just as he was feeling overjoyed, he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and couldn't help but cough a few times, only to vomit blood.

"It seems that the tempering of muscles and internal organs must be brought forward!" Chen Li wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and thought to himself.

Fortunately, there was nothing seriously wrong; the vomiting of blood was just a slight backlash that caused minor damage to the internal organs.

With the full-level hemostasis and healing technique, he had recovered to about 70-80% after half an hour.

……

"Senior Guan Qiguan of the Divine Sword Sect has arrived!"

"Senior Yang Jiguang from the Artifacts Department has arrived!"

A gentle, warm breeze arrives as spring transitions into summer.

The wedding of the Huanzhen Sect and the Hongshan Sect was extremely lively and grand. Except for the Tianxing Sect, several surrounding sects sent people to attend the ceremony.

"Tsk tsk, just the money they received this time is enough to make them eat their fill." Chen Li said with envy.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators who came representing various sects were all generous, each possessing at least second-tier items.

Those who had built foundations within the gate also received gifts.

Chen Li was no exception; he also drew blood.

One of the three demon cores in the storage bag is missing.

He was even considering whether to throw a big celebration for his fiftieth birthday, collect some gifts, and fill his increasingly empty storage bag.

However, considering that not many people would likely come, and that the business might even be unprofitable, they decided to abandon the idea.

After the wedding ended, Chen Li and Guo Xingquan went home together.

Guo Xingquan mysteriously gossiped:
"Do you think the female cultivator from the Red Mountain Sect chose Fellow Daoist Peng?"

"Why?" Chen Li was also a little puzzled.

The Foundation Establishment cultivator who was married into the family was named Peng Yan. He was at the same level as Chen Li, at the second level of Foundation Establishment. He was a big, burly man with a rough and rugged appearance. Judging from his face, he looked to be at least forty years old. His appearance was just passable, nothing special.

He has neither the cultivation level nor the appearance.

The bride, however, was fair-skinned, beautiful, and had a graceful figure; she was quite attractive.

Could it be that the turtle and the mung bean hit it off and the turtle only liked this one?

Or do they have some unknown advantages or strengths?

"It is said that the female cultivator was a firm believer in numerology. She originally did not intend to marry, but because her birth chart was compatible with Peng Yan's, and their union was considered an auspicious omen, bringing great fortune to the woman, she decided to marry him," Guo Xingquan said with a smile.

That's it?

Chen Li was greatly disappointed upon hearing this, as he had hoped to hear some exciting news.

"I see."

The path of the Great Way is unpredictable and has no discernible rules.

There are nearly 100,000 Qi Refining cultivators in the Realm, with countless late-stage Qi Refining cultivators. However, only one cultivator can establish a Foundation Establishment every few years. Since Chen Li established his Foundation Establishment, only Ding Jian has successfully achieved it. As for the Golden Core stage...

One in a century is even rarer.

Is it a lack of talent, or is it fate?

No one said it was bad.

It's not surprising that many cultivators have a strong belief in the art of destiny.

Sometimes Chen Li couldn't help but wonder if his fate was also predetermined, or if it was being manipulated by some unknown force.

Even if I'm being manipulated, I guess I'm still a child favored by fate.

……

As the spirit stones dwindled, by July, Chen Li could no longer contain himself and prepared to go hunting to earn a big score.

Since Feng Qi could supplement his family income by hunting second-tier monsters and remain safe and sound, so could he.

Moreover, after so much arduous training, he also wanted to find a target to test his sword skills.

Otherwise, he would feel really uncomfortable holding it in.

After making an excuse to go out and settling things at home, Chen Li used the Yuan Magnetic Escape Technique amidst Zhou Hong and Zhang Shuniang's reluctance to part, flying all the way back to the direction of the place where he had established his foundation.

……

The sky was pitch black, with no sunlight in sight. Layers of dark clouds clung together, twisting and turning into all sorts of strange shapes, while streaks of blue and white lightning flashed through the clouds.

A continuous rumble of thunder echoed.

Chen Li's arrival was unfortunate; he had just arrived in the forest when a thunderstorm was about to begin.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem like it will rain anytime soon.

He stood on a hilltop.

Gazing at the boundless forest.

They were casting spells one after another.

Earth listening skills!
The art of far-seeing!
X-ray vision!
Techniques to attract good fortune and avoid misfortune!
"what!"

Chen Li exclaimed in surprise. This was the first time he had ever discovered that the Far Vision Technique could be used in conjunction with the X-ray Vision Technique without interfering with each other.

Although the distance of the vision remains unchanged, the superimposed distance vision technique can make the vision clearer within the visible range.

It's like adding a telescope to X-ray vision.

In fact, such superposition is not very useful for ordinary clairvoyance.

Ordinary fluoroscopy has a very short viewing distance; it's not very effective beyond 40 or 50 meters.

However, Chen Li's max-level X-ray vision technique is different. Its effect is comparable to a second-tier level 5 spell, and it is practically a different spell from ordinary X-ray vision. Not only is the X-ray vision effect a hundred times better, but the X-ray vision distance is also two or three miles.

With just his own eyesight, he couldn't possibly distinguish objects two or three miles away.

With the addition of the far-seeing technique, the scenery two or three miles away seems to be brought right in front of you, and you can see it clearly at once.

Chen Li quickly found a target that resembled a monster.

"Unfortunately, it's just a low-level demonic beast..."

Chen Li looked around and then flew up again to another hilltop, searching carefully.

This primeval forest, rarely visited by humans, is teeming with monsters. He could find one almost every ten miles or so, but they were all first-tier monsters; second-tier monsters were hard to find.

It's just that his storage bag wasn't big enough, otherwise it would have been a source of income.

A first-tier demon beast, bones, skin, and flesh, can be sold for twenty or thirty mid-grade spirit stones.

Five heads equals one high-grade spirit stone.

Fifty heads means ten.

Five hundred heads...

The sky began to darken.

Chen Li was hesitating, wondering whether he should find a place to rest or continue searching.

Suddenly, a sense of foreboding arose in my mind.

"who!"

Chen Li subconsciously used the 'Scolding Technique' to shout in surprise, and at the same time, he leaped more than 20 meters away in several leaps. With a flick of his hand, he used a specially made golden protective talisman to protect his body.

The series of movements were fluid and efficient, and the battle preparations were completed in the blink of an eye.

He then quickly looked toward the looming danger.

This sight sent chills down his spine.

Not far away, shrouded in mist, a disheveled figure stood in the shadows. His/her long hair was loose, obscuring his/her face, but vaguely a pair of scarlet eyes seemed to be looking straight at them through the black hair, eerie and sinister.

Chen Li felt a slight warmth from the several exorcism talismans on his chest.

"Why do we always attract these kinds of things?"

next moment.

He is a magic spell to break evil.

This method of dispelling evil spells is much faster than throwing out a talisman.

The evil spirit had no time to dodge and was hit instantly. It let out a piercing scream and exploded into a cloud of ashes with a "bang".

Most evil spirits have little intelligence and act on instinct. When they saw that Chen Li's aura was concealed, they thought he was their prey, and as a result, they brought about their own destruction.

Chen Li then used several more exorcising spells on the location of the evil spirit.

Wait until the ashes have completely dispersed.

Only then did he step forward.

He poked at it with his sword.

In the end, I picked something that turned out to be nothing but gray.

"What a penniless wretch!" Chen Li cursed under his breath.

Many evil spirits are transformed from cultivators; Bai Jinwang even left behind a set of robes and underwear.

This one has obviously been in the wild for a long time; there's nothing left.

After this incident, Chen Li simply found a place nearby to dig a cave, intending to rest for the night, recharge his energy, and continue the search the next night.

P.S.: This chapter is from yesterday.

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