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Chapter 13 The Five Realms of Body Tempering
Geng Xuan did not stop all the way back home. He closed the door, and his body finally began to tremble uncontrollably like a sieve.

Not afraid.

Nor is it guilt.

Rather, excitement.

Geng Xuan tried his best to suppress the emotions rising from the bottom of his heart, but the corners of his mouth curved up uncontrollably in this room full of people.

"Am I sick?"

It is said that the experience after the first murder is not pleasant. Wu Youren’s self-defense counterattack does not count. This time was the first time he took the initiative to kill someone.

And they didn’t just kill one person, they killed a group of people.

A group of men and women who have no grudges against him and are at the best age of their lives.

After witnessing their tragic experiences and miserable deaths, it is reasonable for one to feel a certain amount of guilt.

But Geng Xuan found that there was not even a trace of such emotion.

From the first horse falling, to the first person dying, to his leaving among the crowds scattered all over the street, Geng Xuan's mentality was unusually stable.

If there is any real ups and downs, it’s probably only when you capture and refine the residual energy many times in a row, and your good fortune increases rapidly.

After a long while, Geng Xuan tried to calm himself down and carefully sorted out his gains.

In the first moment after the accident, Geng Xuan captured two groups of residual energy in succession. They came from the unlucky guy whose upper body was stepped on and the headless kid whose head was hanging on the tree stump and whose body fell to the ground.

These two people brought him "good luck 15, bad luck 3" and "good luck 14, bad luck 2" respectively.

Afterwards, until the time they returned to Changpingfang, three more people died one after another.

Two of them brought him "good luck 15, bad luck 2" and "good luck 13, bad luck 2" respectively.

The latter one was exactly what Geng Xuan got when he just entered the gate of Changpingfang.

These gains were basically within Geng Xuan's expectations.

The only surprising point is that the overall black luck data is low, which is a good thing.

"Tao Cheng, Wei Ming, Meng Kai, Zhao Songnian." Geng Xuan silently recited the names of these four "contributors" in his mind to express his gratitude.

Afterwards, Geng Xuan's mind was focused on the residual energy he had gained after leaving the main street of the market but before reaching the gate of Changpingfang.

After this ball of residual energy was refined, it was obviously different from the other four balls.

【Good luck is five, bad luck is thirty. 】

Not only is Hongyun's income far less than the first four, it is only five points.

What Geng Xuan was more concerned about was his bad luck, which amounted to thirty points.

"This is hitting a brick wall!"

Geng Xuan knew very well what this meant. As long as people noticed that he had the slightest connection with this "accident", he would immediately be in danger, or even in a desperate situation.

This made Geng Xuan's mood suddenly become heavy, and the joy of the harvest faded a lot.

"Xu Nianwei, Xu Nianwei."

Geng Xuan repeated the name of the "contributor" of this residual energy several times in his mind and kept it firmly in mind.

Geng Xuan was basically certain that the person who gave him this unexpected "big gift package" should be one of the two women riding on the same horse.

"This is really a case of adding new debts before the old ones are paid off."

Wu Youren's debt is still outstanding, and now there is a bigger one.

Thinking of this, Geng Xuan suddenly found that the pressure was not that great.

A sentence even popped into his mind: debt is actually a kind of wealth.

"pattern."

……

In any case, the harvest this time was amazing.

"Good luck 62, bad luck 39" is all the benefits brought to him by the five people who died in this "accident".

Adding the original two points of good luck and six points of bad luck, the two data now are "Good luck 64, Bad luck 45".

Leaving aside his bad luck, his good luck alone was enough for him to raise his "Iron Skill" to two levels.

However, Geng Xuan fell into deep thought on the question of how to use such a huge fortune.

Such a huge profit will naturally enable him to rapidly improve the skills he has mastered.

But is this the most appropriate one?
Here, I have to talk about the peculiarity of cultivation in this world.

There are five stages of body tempering: refining the skin, refining the flesh, refining the blood, refining the bones, and refining the marrow.

Unlike what most people imagine, there is a certain degree of progressive relationship between the five realms. Tempering the body is a process from the outside to the inside, from skin and flesh, to blood and bones, and finally to the bone marrow and brain. However, it is not necessary to refine the previous realm thoroughly before entering the next realm. This is an extremely inefficient strategy, and no cultivator would make this choice.

Because of a basic premise that the body is a complete entity and there is no absolutely strict division between skin, flesh, blood and marrow.

Secondly, as a unified body, it itself "shares the joys and sorrows, and the rise and fall".

There is no such thing as one's skin refining achievement being extremely high, or even reaching the pinnacle, while the flesh, blood, tendons, and bones are still at an average level or even worse.

This is impossible.

Either the overall quality is poor and it is impossible for them to support the skin refining to the highest level on their own.

Or, while the skin refining achievements are improving, other body endowments such as flesh, blood, tendons, and bones are also forced to be improved little by little. This is leading first and then later, the strong leading the weak.

Therefore, the usual procedure for body tempering is to start with refining the skin. When a certain level of skin refining can serve as a backup for the next stage of flesh refining, then flesh refining can be directly included in the scope of cultivation.

The skin refining will not stop because of this, and one will continue to practice and grow.

When the skin and flesh refining have reached a certain level of success and the body has the foundation for blood refining, blood refining will be included in the scope of practice.

And so on.

By the final stage of body tempering, it is the "five realms cultivation" in which the skin, flesh, blood, bones and marrow are all involved.

It is also for this reason that the strength of a practitioner's skin, flesh, blood, bones, and marrow will continue to increase as his realm improves.

There is no such thing as the skin refining achievements stagnating and the strength of the skin being fixed after entering the flesh refining realm from the skin refining realm.

This snowball-like practice method is the most in line with natural growth and is the best way to train and develop the practitioner's qualities in all aspects.

Now, Geng Xuan, who has practiced the Iron Skin Skill to the great success level, suddenly discovered that in addition to continuing to improve the Iron Skin Skill level to quickly enhance his skin refining achievements, he is actually qualified to enter the second level of body tempering to refine the flesh.

Which option is more suitable?

In fact, when this thought came to his mind, the answer was already clear.

No matter which level of body tempering practice you are in, it will become more difficult as you progress.

This is also reflected in the consumption of red luck. According to the previous rules, if Iron Skin Kung Fu wants to go further, it has to consume sixteen points of red luck, and then thirty-two points.

The good fortune you earn by racking your brains and taking great risks will soon be squandered.

However, if the same good fortune is used to improve the Flesh Refining Stage, the effect will be much more significant. It may even allow one to complete the accumulation of the second stage of Body Tempering and be qualified to enter the third stage of Body Tempering.

The improvement in overall strength is also more obvious for those who train both the skin and the flesh.

"Now, the only problem is the lack of suitable skills."

Geng Xuan was thinking in his heart, when he suddenly saw a red color in front of his eyes, and then a piece of information came to his mind.

[Capture the remaining energy, do you want to refine it? ]

Geng Xuan was shocked: "What's going on?"

It seems like a simple matter. Just like the five people who died before, this is another person's death.

But if you think about it carefully, you will find something strange.

Those who died on the spot and those who were fatally injured and could not be saved no matter what, and could only hold on for a while, were excluded.

There is only one possibility for someone who has survived the accident until now, that is, he did not suffer any fatal injuries, and at most suffered heavy bleeding.

With the reaction speed of those in power in the market and the medicinal resources they can provide, it is easy to save these people and they will be alive and well soon.

But just at this most unlikely time, a man named "Duan Lida" contributed some remaining energy to him.

After thinking about it, there are only two possibilities.

One possibility is that this person is extremely gifted, or the injuries he suffered are too strange, so he dies slowly and cannot be revived no matter what, leaving everyone helpless and able to only wait for death.

Apart from this, there is still one possibility left.

"Duan Lida died slowly without any medical treatment."

Thinking of this, Geng Xuan, who had not been too upset by the previous five consecutive deaths, couldn't help but feel ripples in his heart.

New doubts also emerged in my mind.

The gains from refining this residual energy diverted his thoughts.

【Good luck 16, bad luck 1. 】

Good luck is the highest, bad luck is the least.

This means that this is the harvest with the greatest benefits and the lowest cost.

From then on, Geng Xuan had a total of 80 points of good luck and 40 points of bad luck.

(End of this chapter)